Nevay, Old Parish Church, Cross-incised Stones
Cross Incised Stone(S) (Early Medieval)
Site Name Nevay, Old Parish Church, Cross-incised Stones
Classification Cross Incised Stone(S) (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 32155
Site Number NO34SW 1.01
NGR NO 3123 4411
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/32155
- Council Angus
- Parish Eassie And Nevay
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
Nevay 1, Angus, grave-marker or consecration cross
Measurements: H 0.27m, W 0.31m, D 0.06m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NO 3123 4411
Present location: Meffan Institute, Forfar
Evidence for discovery: found amongst rubble inside the ruined church in 1988. It was taken first to Montrose Museum and later to the Meffan Institute. The church lies within an oval graveyard.
Present condition: broken at the base and the right-hand edge is damaged.
Description
This oval stone may be the head of a disc-headed grave-marker or a consecration cross from the wall of the medieval church. One face is carved in relief with a sunken cross with narrow wedge-shaped arms set within an incised circle.
Date range: early medieval.
Primary references: DES 1988, 26.
Desk-based information complied by A Ritchie 2018
Nevay 2, Angus, consecration cross
Measurements:
Stone type:
Place of discovery: NO 3123 4411
Present location: lost
Evidence for discovery: found amongst rubble inside the ruined church in 1988. The church lies within an oval graveyard.
Present condition:
Description
This fragment was incised on one face with an equal-armed cross within a circle.
Date range: early medieval.
Primary references: DES 1988, 26.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
Artefact Recovery (1988)
NO34SW 1.01 3123 4411
Found in a pile of stonework in the ruined church, most of the head of a disc-headed cross slab, probably an Early Christian grave marker, 31cm by 30cm by 10cm. The stone is carved on one face with a sunken cross with wedge shaped arms within an incised circle. At the centre of the cross is a small square raised boss. This stone has been removed to Montrose Museum.
Another Early Christian cross-slab, a small stone incised with an equal-armed cross within a circle, the larger part of which had broken off was noted at the same time as the first stone, but is no longer to be seen.
N Robertson 1988.
